Nursing and Midwifery staff
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Julie Davis
Foundation Year Lecturer
Julie joined the ADD (Academic Development Department) in 2018 as a Lecturer on the HELS Foundation Year programme. Prior to joining Birmingham City University, she worked at a number of local FE and HE institutions where she developed and delivered a range of Early Years and Education programmes. Her professional background...
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Helen Davis-Miles
Course Lead for MSci Nursing and Senior Lecturer
Helen is part of the Future Nurse Programme team as MSci Nursing course which runs alongside the BSc Nursing and Registered Nurse Degree Apprentice courses. Helen qualified as a nurse from the University of Birmingham in 2011 with a 1:1 and began her career at Great Ormond Street Hospital in the Haematology/Oncology unit. ...
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Emily Dekker
Adult Nursing Lecturer
Emily qualified as an adult nurse in 2008, from King’s College London. Upon qualifying she worked in acute and rehabilitation stroke services at King’s College hospital for four years, during which time, stroke services rapidly developed and began offering thrombolysis treatments for stroke patients. Emily was fortunate...
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Simon Dobbs
Senior Lecturer
Simon has been delivering BCU’s post registration Cardiac courses since 2003 and has overseen their development from diploma awards to the current provision at Level 6 and 7. In addition he is part of the Dimensions in Health Care (now Professional Practice award) programme team, facilitating the provision of a variety of...
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Ann-Marie Dodson
Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing and Critical Care
Ann-Marie commenced her career in the NHS as nursing auxiliary and qualified as a General Nurse in 1981 from Selly Oak School of Nursing where she worked in Medicine, Emergency Surgery and Intensive care. In 1989 she moved to the Queen Elizabeth hospital working in Renal, Liver and Intensive care before qualifying as a...
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Caroline Donley
Senior Lecturer in Specialist Community Public Health Nursing
Caroline qualified as a Registered General Nurse from Westminster Hospital London in 1987, gaining experience in oncology nursing and palliative care. Whilst undertaking her ENB931 course in ‘care of the dying patient and their relatives’ she developed her passion for holistic family-centred nursing in community settings. ...
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Paul Drew
Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing
Paul has worked in health care since 2003, starting his career as a HCA and naturally followed the Nursing path and became a registered Nurse in 2008. Paul has worked in a variety of clinical settings within the NHS, including Renal Transplant, Acute Gastrointestinal and Emergency Care. He spent 2 years working within...
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Andrea Driver-Williams
Lecturer
Andrea is a lecturer in Adult Nursing within the School of nursing and Midwifery at Birmingham City University. As part of the module team on NUR6077 she helps teach the 3 rd year students in delivering high-quality, person-centred care. As well as helping deliver the HIV session on NUR5080. She graduated from Birmingham...
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Claire East
Senior Lecturer
Claire qualified with a Diploma in Adult Nursing from BCU in 2010. Claire has previously worked in oncology/haematology caring for pre and post chemotherapy and stem cell transplants. She is passionate about palliative and end of life care, and has worked in palliative care since 2013 in various roles including a clinical nurse...
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Dr Alison Edwards
Visiting Lecturer - Midwifery
Alison first qualified as a general nurse in 1988 and following a few years as a nurse in gynaecology and care of the elderly, a move into Midwifery was made. The main areas Alison worked in included fetal medicine, day assessment, coordination of delivery suite and also managing a postnatal and antenatal ward. This lead into...